Slight Quotes

Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.

The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.

I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I'm not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I'm going to do something, I have to do it.

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.

If you haven't had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.

Indeed, the whole company, although thin in flesh, and generally of slight forms, and limbs, especially, are as good looking and intelligent a body of men as we usually meet with.

I don't really have Down's syndrome; I just have a slight case of it.

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.

The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.